Re: Ada magazine

[weisek@source.asset.com (Kevin Weise)]

In article <3dc3k4$39k@monmouth.edu>,
DEAN RUNZEL <s0222353@moncol.monmouth.edu> wrote:
>I have a question for the Ada community and the vendors. Has anyone ever
>seriously considered starting a magazine with a primarily Ada orientation?

Back in mid- to late- 80's, there was a magazine titled "Journal of
Pascal, Ada, and Modula-2".  While it did publish articles with code, it
seemed to me that, more often than not, the topics were, well, trivial
(e.g., recommending that programmers have exception handlers for all
pre-defined exceptions in their main program, so you can know which one
was raised; primarily good for debugging.  Please, no flames on this,
I'm trying to recall the context of the article from memory).  It
finally died, succumbing probably to starvation.  Now, I know there are
people out there who liked the magazine.  But I can't see how it could
compete against articles covering such topics as digital signal
processing and 6-degree-of-freedom computations, for example, in
magazines like Embedded Systems.  

In a very real sense, the Ada community does have a magazine.  Its
called "Ada Letters", and is published by the ACM SIGAda.  If you want
something flashier, with slick glossy covers & cool graphics, I would
recommend that people begin submitting more articles to Embedded
Systems, PCWeek, etc.  They have been known to publish articles
favorable to Ada.

>Now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of Ada!
>

I agree. As for myself, I would love to find the time to finish a
particular component of interest (parameters of electromagnetic radiation
scattered by a sphere) and see who would be interested in publishing a
brief paper about it.

>Thanks for taking the time to read this. I appreciate your comments.
>Dean Runzel
>
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